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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
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Speaker 1: trimmed down hot Kim Jong n uh and I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
Speaker 1: Miles grab might be that June boy on that cold
Speaker 1: brew or it ely Yeah, give me tuna meat, j
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Speaker 1: shout out to you for that wonderful into the groove
Speaker 1: of a k our alarm would have gone off. If
Speaker 1: he had hit hit him all, but hit every dimension
Speaker 1: of my personality. Uh well, Miles. We are thrilled, blessed
Speaker 1: to be joined by the hosts of the Web Crawlers podcast,
Speaker 1: two great writers and teammates on the Pistol Shops basketball team.
Speaker 1: Please welcome the brilliant and talented Melissa Steton and Ali
Speaker 1: Sega Hi Hi. Actually Allie's Allie's not on the basketball team.
Speaker 1: Sheause she's an honorary member. I was gonna say, Jack,
Speaker 1: that's I don't think. I actually asked when they were
Speaker 1: having tryouts again, and uh, no, one circled back to me.
Speaker 1: COVID happened. We haven't played in the year. No, I
Speaker 1: saw you. Guys posted a picture of yourself is playing,
Speaker 1: So I saw it. Okay, it's okay. Can I meet
Speaker 1: two comments really quickly? Yes? Yes, please? Okay? Um Harvey
Speaker 1: Danger Flagpole Sita is my favorite song of all time.
Speaker 1: And also one time I got food poisoning from a
Speaker 1: subway tuna sandwich in sixth grade and I threw up
Speaker 1: on stage during rehearsal for the class play. And I
Speaker 1: haven't had a tuna subway sandwich since. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: We knew both of those facts. That's why we I thought, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we sucked up the pistol, shrimp sparks. You got
Speaker 1: to go to our research team and someone's getting fired.
Speaker 1: But what what was the play and what was your role? Um?
Speaker 1: It was a play on Greek mythology that my music
Speaker 1: teacher created and made up. So wrote the play. I
Speaker 1: feel like it was like an off Broadway production that
Speaker 1: she just brought to my elementary school. And I played
Speaker 1: Hara Zeus wife. Yes I did. Okay, that feels like
Speaker 1: a very l a teacher. The teachers like, so I
Speaker 1: wrote this musical that we're going to have a production
Speaker 1: elementary school. Yeah, okay, after that, it's amazing. Were you
Speaker 1: able to work it into your character like kind of
Speaker 1: improv off of the Oh yeah, totally, Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It flowed right in, just tuned us. Subway everywhere just seemless,
Speaker 1: like Melissa, where do you hail from? I'm from the
Speaker 1: Great State of Michigan. Kalamazoo hander shout. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: looking at the hand down here, Southwest got you? Got you?
Speaker 1: And did you have any terrible experiences with subway? Tuna
Speaker 1: j Dilla Weed, Madonna Black Boles just making sure. No,
Speaker 1: I do love that song because it's a theme song
Speaker 1: of the show Peep Show, the British comedy show favorite show.
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree since we're talking about
Speaker 1: how good that song is, that I nailed it my
Speaker 1: performance of it. It was your songbird, your beautiful. I've
Speaker 1: got perfect pitch. Shocking corn did rendy tasseling. What's corn tasseling.
Speaker 1: It's a job I had because when you're like fourteen
Speaker 1: or fifteen, you could work as a corn toy tassel
Speaker 1: er and they would you would wake up at like
Speaker 1: five am. They'd put you on a school bus and
Speaker 1: you we went to Indiana to these corn fields and
Speaker 1: you would just pull the tassels off the corn. You
Speaker 1: would just walk through the fields and it was so hot.
Speaker 1: You would get this thing called corn rash because like
Speaker 1: what wave up against your arms and you I mean
Speaker 1: you got paid like I don't know, eight dollars an hour,
Speaker 1: which was like huge back then, especially for child labor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was not They would like give you five
Speaker 1: minutes for lunch and I get sunburned. What about our union?
Speaker 1: What it was? Child labor? The corn fields filterless to
Speaker 1: my car. I need to tassel corn, okay, and the
Speaker 1: tassel is the tip like that has I mean that's
Speaker 1: the thing that looks like top of the Yeah, easy buddy,
Speaker 1: Oh that like we okay, right, the part you never
Speaker 1: see at the store, that's in the stocks. That's how
Speaker 1: a city boy puts it together in my mouth, oh,
Speaker 1: from the pictures of the fields, but not what you
Speaker 1: get at Whole Foods right when it's already and the
Speaker 1: cellophane and styrofoam trade that it comes in that's not
Speaker 1: in the field either, right it is. Actually, Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's uh. That's some real hardcore ship to be doing
Speaker 1: your first jobs like paying on someone's like show, like
Speaker 1: that's like our corn d tasseling, or like working at
Speaker 1: some persons store that's like, yeah, I don't know a
Speaker 1: higher kid, you're like someone's assistant and like that was
Speaker 1: my first job and moved to l a woman's assistant
Speaker 1: when our basketball team, like in Kentucky, to raise money
Speaker 1: for the basketball team. I have no idea why we
Speaker 1: needed to do that, but we would work bingo halls
Speaker 1: and fish shows like a fish like pH I s h.
Speaker 1: That was one of the things you did. It was
Speaker 1: like go to fish shows and like work basically worked
Speaker 1: the parking lot and like direct traffic. But then you
Speaker 1: were at a fish show and like your classmates were,
Speaker 1: they're getting fucking high out of then there are that
Speaker 1: many fish shows that happened. It was a cool thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was just like we had there. There
Speaker 1: was like an annual horse race that our basketball team
Speaker 1: always worked the parking lot and an angle fish show.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite fishcheck? I had? I was not a fish.
Speaker 1: That was when I was into the wood Tang clan
Speaker 1: and you gotta pick one that must have been hell
Speaker 1: then you like fuck this old soft. Actually there was
Speaker 1: one album that I got into that I can't remember
Speaker 1: the name of, like Billy Breathes or something like that.
Speaker 1: Aren't fish people in tense? Like fish people are like
Speaker 1: grateful dead people, like they follow them all around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are certainly you follow Yeah, I know people who
Speaker 1: straight up I mean I know people who did follow
Speaker 1: fish around. But yeah, it's that same kind of energy
Speaker 1: where because it's like their shows are just so like
Speaker 1: they're just so jammy that it's like you go out
Speaker 1: there off your board on psychedelics and like you're like,
Speaker 1: let's jump rope and yeah, it's like real acid acid
Speaker 1: energy acid, just what I want to do when I
Speaker 1: take a classic combo of jump roping rave and like
Speaker 1: shows or people are on psychedecs. I've heen the weirdest
Speaker 1: objects people used to like get their energy out. Like
Speaker 1: I've seen people raves with like led jump ropes that
Speaker 1: are like like you know what. I had seen those.
Speaker 1: And also when I was I was in the marching
Speaker 1: band in high school and our drum major who like
Speaker 1: was the dude who had like the mace and would
Speaker 1: do all like the fucking twirling ship. He would go
Speaker 1: to raves with his own like gigantic glow stick and
Speaker 1: do like the wildest light shows with his drum major skills.
Speaker 1: And he was like he would wear these baggy Jinko
Speaker 1: pants and I remember seeing him like and he's like,
Speaker 1: hell no, I'm the center of attention at this race.
Speaker 1: So yeah, people got nice successories, very cool. Do you
Speaker 1: remember those things from the two thousands where it was
Speaker 1: like those sticks that like yes, oh yeah, uh fish
Speaker 1: shows and renfairs. I feel like that's the then diagram there.
Speaker 1: My first interaction with Devil sticks. Was when I went
Speaker 1: to interlock in camp in Michigan and there was like
Speaker 1: a kid who was crushing it with devil devil sticks,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was easy and I was so frustrated,
Speaker 1: like I had my mom buying for me. I sucked
Speaker 1: and like I broke them and was crying. It was
Speaker 1: like a whole thing. I had a couple of friends
Speaker 1: with the interlock and it might have been them because
Speaker 1: they were because my crew was sick with the devil sticks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was us. That was yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was me. Us. My wife went to the interlock. And
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of I know so many people.
Speaker 1: I feel like I missed out. I just went to
Speaker 1: shitty basketball camps. And was she a musician? Right? He
Speaker 1: said musician? You know? She was actually just really good
Speaker 1: at a hackey sack. Her skill was I was plastered
Speaker 1: all over like the brochure the year I went, because
Speaker 1: it wasn't very diverse when I was there. So they're like,
Speaker 1: and look at this young man who is brown like,
Speaker 1: and I was like in three pages and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm the star, even though I'm like the third chair
Speaker 1: trumpet in the in the youth symphony. Yeah right, we
Speaker 1: are going to get to know you guys a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things.
Speaker 1: We're talking about. The critical race theory GOP kind of
Speaker 1: scare politics thing is continuing to be used and apparently
Speaker 1: it's working. We're going to check in with the police
Speaker 1: backlash too, being criticized by protesters. Yeah, they're taking it
Speaker 1: really well and uh they've they're good at dealing with
Speaker 1: constructive criticism. We are gonna talk about just a cool
Speaker 1: thing I read about about. How you guys seen this.
Speaker 1: You heard about this. Most of the creatures in the world,
Speaker 1: on the planet Earth are part of a bioluminescent galaxy
Speaker 1: that exists uh below the twilight zone and like the
Speaker 1: pitch black part of the ocean. I thought they were
Speaker 1: like the occasional fish that lit up. Apparently when you
Speaker 1: go down there, it's like a constellation of just tons
Speaker 1: and tons of animals that laid up. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk about the box office, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about why a quiet place too is frustrating hearing impaired viewers,
Speaker 1: all of that plenty more. But first, Melissa Ali, we
Speaker 1: like to ask our guests what is something from your
Speaker 1: search history? Oh, well, mine is so stupid perfect. I
Speaker 1: just occasionally I'll like pop in or something I'll pop
Speaker 1: in my brain, like a memory of like someone I
Speaker 1: met or like I hooked up with, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: what happened to that guy I hooked up with, like
Speaker 1: when I was in high school? And it was that
Speaker 1: I met in an A O L chat room And
Speaker 1: so the only thing I remember about him was his
Speaker 1: name was Alex. He spoke Russian. He went to Western
Speaker 1: Michigan University. So I googled Alex Russian, Western Regian University.
Speaker 1: Clearly did not result in anything. And why I like
Speaker 1: thought that was gonna work. Yeah. More importantly, do you
Speaker 1: remember the screen name? No. I tried to actually see
Speaker 1: if I could log back into my old AOL emails,
Speaker 1: but I haven't checked it in fifteen years. So it's like,
Speaker 1: this is the count has been suspended due to inactivity.
Speaker 1: Damn it. I would kill the log into my old
Speaker 1: AOL email. Oh man, yeah, I feel like that's I've
Speaker 1: tried to look for people based on screen names and
Speaker 1: it never worked. But never it gave me hope for
Speaker 1: a second, because like sometimes it will be like search
Speaker 1: screen names, email addresses, whatever to find somebody in it.
Speaker 1: Now you always have to end up paying the last
Speaker 1: status you have to pay exactly is it is it
Speaker 1: worth seventy dollars to find out if someone, when it
Speaker 1: is to me is married and has a family? Now? Cool,
Speaker 1: good for them. You pay enough. You can just look
Speaker 1: at their webcam right there in the moment, what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now. I bet you that would be if
Speaker 1: in a in a near future, that's probably an option,
Speaker 1: Like for more, do you want to access their ring cameras? Oh?
Speaker 1: It definitely that. Then you pay the money in they're
Speaker 1: like like, can't do that, Ali, what's something from your
Speaker 1: search history? Okay? So our producer of our podcast, her
Speaker 1: name is Maria, and she is obsessed with this bottled
Speaker 1: oxygen like but she like, you know how the severe
Speaker 1: elderly or people who are sick have like severe tragically
Speaker 1: the severe geriatric have like oxygen tanks, but it's like
Speaker 1: you have to wheel them around. I swear to god
Speaker 1: this isn't an ad or a sponsored post. But she
Speaker 1: you can buy like portable oxygen and just huff it,
Speaker 1: and she's obsessed with it. So I googled it and
Speaker 1: I was like, what is the deal with this? And
Speaker 1: I bought like a case of oxygen. One of the
Speaker 1: characters I model my life after Dennis Hopper and Blue
Speaker 1: Velvet Rocks. That quite a bit, you get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the benefits of Huffy just straight oxygen out the can.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you asked aerobic performance, recharge and cover
Speaker 1: and um altitude and it helps with altitude and poor
Speaker 1: air quality. Oh so if you're going to climb Everest,
Speaker 1: which I do frequently. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys knew this, but oxygen directly fuel of
Speaker 1: all body and mind functions, and the air is only oxygen.
Speaker 1: Doesn't this feel like a scan? Like someone's like, well, man,
Speaker 1: if they're bottling water, Like why the are we bottling?
Speaker 1: There's like nothing in here? This is like computer duster
Speaker 1: for sure. I remember, like in the early like there
Speaker 1: was that whole oxygen bar craze where vegas or like
Speaker 1: vault malls and like the Beverly Center and ship would
Speaker 1: have like come to the oxygen bar and like pick
Speaker 1: some like tranquility mixed with stress relief and then you
Speaker 1: just sit there inhaling oxygen and I felt like it
Speaker 1: was such a placebo effect or like I mean, at
Speaker 1: the time I was like fifteen, I was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm like the strawberry, the strawberry is really good.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, like a like Ashton Kutcher had his own
Speaker 1: like oxygen bar and like Weiho or something. It was
Speaker 1: next to Gisha House. Yeah, sun up the Chugye club
Speaker 1: overs out there that remember the o g s If
Speaker 1: you were there at Privilege at the underground after hours
Speaker 1: part of privilege, let him go one time where you
Speaker 1: can see the people underneath. I have no idea what
Speaker 1: you guys are talking. This is l A. This is
Speaker 1: I don't get to get Are you from l A? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where'd you go to high school? I went to Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: Harvard Westlake Baby oh shit, okay, so that like Molly
Speaker 1: Lambert went there. Also guests whose arm very regularly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people Jacob sober Off a friend
Speaker 1: of mine. I think also when Miles Off, Yes, I
Speaker 1: love it. He cool. Look at that family. It's like
Speaker 1: the Olive Garden. Do you feel any like when when
Speaker 1: you take a hit off of the oxygen right now? Tank? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Could you could we hear right now. Think that's always
Speaker 1: like a thing i'd read. Okay, it just looks like
Speaker 1: like a I feel like I'm breathing. I don't think
Speaker 1: it does anything to tell you the truth. You just die,
Speaker 1: your really bad. But I mean there is like they
Speaker 1: say that if you're in a car that goes underwater,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to like take like five deep huffs of
Speaker 1: air and like you'll be able to, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: your blood will be more oxygenated. Oh it's a good tip. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just tried it when I was holding my breath
Speaker 1: to impress my three the other day, and it works.
Speaker 1: I was able to do it by like, you know,
Speaker 1: huffing big big breaths before I went under and I
Speaker 1: passed out and knock the TV over. Yeah, um, no deal.
Speaker 1: What is uh? What is something you guys think is overrated? Well,
Speaker 1: I this might be controversial or not golf, m hmm.
Speaker 1: Not on my podcast, Not on my podcast. What do
Speaker 1: you want me to leave? I want to leave so
Speaker 1: we can follow you to the protest at the country club.
Speaker 1: I can't. It's it's boring. It's very boring. It's not easy,
Speaker 1: and it takes so much time to be good at it.
Speaker 1: So and it's expensive. That's the point. It's not take
Speaker 1: the point like that's why it's so good and it's
Speaker 1: so Yeah, you have to apply for memberships to go
Speaker 1: to these country clubs. You can be denied a membership.
Speaker 1: It's very like elitist and like rich people. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: it takes up the best parts of so much space. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so much space. You can build so many houses where
Speaker 1: all these dumb golf courses are. So it's it's overrated.
Speaker 1: We have like nine hundred amazing central parks if you
Speaker 1: bring the gates down and just be like, hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: can fucking just enjoy the earth in the city. To
Speaker 1: understand l A, Yeah, all you have to really understand
Speaker 1: is that. Imagine that in Manhattan if they just walled
Speaker 1: off Central Park and only rich people were allowed to
Speaker 1: go there. Yeah. Yeah, you have to pay two hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to like have a have access to it.
Speaker 1: What is, Alie, something you think is overrated? Mine is
Speaker 1: also probably will be controversial for some people, but for
Speaker 1: me it's Chrissy Teagan, Oh shots fired. I'm just over it.
Speaker 1: Just like log off, I don't need to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I don't need to know your business is. I don't
Speaker 1: care about like how you're feeling, what you're doing your
Speaker 1: redemption to her. I just like I don't need to
Speaker 1: know about what's going on with you. And it's weird
Speaker 1: that you think the whole world always needs to know
Speaker 1: what's going on with you. I don't. I don't need it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's like a wait. She it almost feels
Speaker 1: like I have this burden to carry the world on
Speaker 1: my shoulders and like, yeah, I have to get this
Speaker 1: medium post off to let people know where I'm at
Speaker 1: my target money. It's like we've all she thinks we've
Speaker 1: all been waiting and like with bated brad. I mean
Speaker 1: Mamilissa has, but like we've all been waiting with bated
Speaker 1: breath to hear how Chrissy Teagan is doing. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't care. Just live your life and that will
Speaker 1: be so much better than you constantly being online. That's
Speaker 1: that do we need from you? Go hang out like
Speaker 1: on an island for like a year, just like hang
Speaker 1: out with her family, Like she doesn't need to be
Speaker 1: on the internet, Like, just enjoy your life. I wish
Speaker 1: her no ill will I wish her nothing but the best.
Speaker 1: I hope she I hope she's happy and kind and thriving.
Speaker 1: I think I just like I don't. I don't need
Speaker 1: to hear from her. I don't think anyone needs to
Speaker 1: hear from her, like I think it would be a
Speaker 1: benefit to her if she Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: It's just like I get it. You know, you're you're saying,
Speaker 1: I I fucked up. I need to grow as a person. Okay,
Speaker 1: go grow and then you know, right, your growth, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's and then nothing as long as you're not out
Speaker 1: here denying you said anything, like I never said any
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're talking about. I'm fine, I'm good.
Speaker 1: And then don't come back and be like, guys, I
Speaker 1: know that was hard on me too. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I will say. And like I don't even want to
Speaker 1: get into her apology, but like her her amend's or
Speaker 1: her apology was all about like her growth and how
Speaker 1: she's doing and like what she learned on a public level,
Speaker 1: and not at all specifically like about the people who
Speaker 1: she called out or who she hurt on a public
Speaker 1: love well, and all these people are like she ruined
Speaker 1: my career, and she ruined my life in front of
Speaker 1: millions of people, like say specifically sorry to them publicly
Speaker 1: if you did, if you, you know, demolish their careers
Speaker 1: publicly as well. You know, it was just all about her,
Speaker 1: and it's just like I don't care, goodbye, just go
Speaker 1: do your thing. It isn't weird to also see like
Speaker 1: other celebs right this way, because today I was reading
Speaker 1: like Leona Lewis was saying like, oh, I know Michael
Speaker 1: Costello has something to say about Christy Tea and you said, well,
Speaker 1: I have something to say about Michael Costello and You're
Speaker 1: like what. It's just like, let's all about things that
Speaker 1: are more granted, I'm perpetuating it right now, like I'm
Speaker 1: talking about it here, but right now. Yeah, yeah, what
Speaker 1: I is something you guys think is underrated. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say possums. Wow that this might be controversial, perfect it,
Speaker 1: but possums. Okay. So I started putting out food outside
Speaker 1: my house at the beginning of quarantine because like I
Speaker 1: saw like a couple of cats walk up by, like
Speaker 1: I want to put out food now. I have a
Speaker 1: cat that I named Skeletor that basically lives in my
Speaker 1: front yard. I feed it three times a day. It
Speaker 1: sleeps in the dirt. It's it's my it's my cat.
Speaker 1: It's my outdoor cat. And I also have possums and
Speaker 1: raccoons and skunks, and I put out a little camera
Speaker 1: so I could see them. Possums are adorable. I know
Speaker 1: they look like scary, like pointy cats with like teeth inside,
Speaker 1: but they're so nice and they eat a lot of ticks,
Speaker 1: and they don't have brabies, and they don't have brabies.
Speaker 1: My mom is the same the same crew as you.
Speaker 1: She's been. She had started off with her seeing a
Speaker 1: possum once and she is like the North Hollywood possum Lady.
Speaker 1: She's a card carrying member of like the North American
Speaker 1: like Opossum Society, and she's like a possum of it.
Speaker 1: And at the first time, like, I'll feed them nasty
Speaker 1: what they're fine, Their dusts out, they have brabies. The
Speaker 1: scars on their faces because they don't see well, and
Speaker 1: they go around the world using the front of their face.
Speaker 1: That's why it gets all scarred up. It's not because
Speaker 1: they're nasty and getting fights. That's just how they make sense.
Speaker 1: And they carry their babies on their backs. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll have like five little possums like just hank like
Speaker 1: carrying around on their backs until they're big enough own carries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: carries carries me to this back rides for babies. That's
Speaker 1: why mine is. Cold showers instead of hot showers really
Speaker 1: good for you, actually good for your nervous system. It's
Speaker 1: like people do those like cry oh you know, like
Speaker 1: you go in that like freezing chamber and it's just
Speaker 1: easier and you can do it from home like a
Speaker 1: cold plung should just rejuvenating gives you more energy than
Speaker 1: hot shower. You'll be surprised. Try it out. Doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a full cold shower, just like go cold
Speaker 1: for fifteen seconds at the end of your shower and
Speaker 1: it will. I love doing that. I love doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah I see see to a cold water floater on
Speaker 1: top of your hot shower. Hell yeah baby, And then
Speaker 1: I take a dose of that oxygen and I'm ready
Speaker 1: to go. It's funny one of those things that Seinfeld
Speaker 1: really influenced for me. And now like I'm just realizing
Speaker 1: that as you say it, Like I think when I
Speaker 1: was younger, like cold showers because they like wake you up.
Speaker 1: And then there was that part in Seinfeld where somebody
Speaker 1: claims to take a cold shower and Seinfeld's like cold
Speaker 1: showers their first psychotics. And there I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, like that just resonated with me, and right,
Speaker 1: guy who kids, right exactly. I just I need to
Speaker 1: go through and just remove all Seinfeld assumptions from my
Speaker 1: brain because I could have been the president galaxy brain
Speaker 1: and all of sudden, what if airport peanuts aren't too small?
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we will
Speaker 1: be right back to talk about the news, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And the Biden administration has been a little strange for
Speaker 1: the lack of kind of scandals coming from the right,
Speaker 1: Like they I haven't heard about him wearing a the
Speaker 1: wrong suit to anything the way that we we did
Speaker 1: when Obama was empowered. That you know, Fox News just
Speaker 1: could bring up anything about him, and like their majority
Speaker 1: racist viewership was just ready to hate him. But Biden
Speaker 1: looks exactly like their majority racist viewership. So now they
Speaker 1: and I think also his policies are pretty popular, right well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they don't remember they didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about the stimulus because You're like, yeah, I need money
Speaker 1: from the government. Are you kidding me? I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not working right now. So they're like, talk about Mr
Speaker 1: potato Head, you know how they have to talk about
Speaker 1: Mr potato Head. Dr Seuss And the big one these
Speaker 1: days isn't that critical race theory? Yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's completely like like you said, it's we're in a
Speaker 1: whole new environment where they can't even focus on even
Speaker 1: the low hanging fruit, which would be like, what is
Speaker 1: Joe Biden actually done from his campaign promises? Because I
Speaker 1: would if you're looking for something to be critical of,
Speaker 1: that's something you could go down and listen, like, well,
Speaker 1: where is that student debt relief? Where was that that
Speaker 1: weird math where certainly turned into a different amount of
Speaker 1: stimulus money. But now it's critical race theory. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about before how this has been a conscious effort
Speaker 1: to create this like outrage over it. And the numbers
Speaker 1: I think are starting to show that this is very clear.
Speaker 1: Fox News mentioned critical race theory five fifty two times
Speaker 1: in the previous eleven months, and then it ramped up
Speaker 1: in the last three which there's another number that's like
Speaker 1: over six hundred and it's only gotten more and more.
Speaker 1: Last week, they've shoehorned it into coverage one five times
Speaker 1: in five days. And then so then you see, we've
Speaker 1: seen all their coverage or a lot of coverage in
Speaker 1: the media of this has been you know, people in
Speaker 1: Florida or Texas, like governors and legislators trying to be like,
Speaker 1: we gotta stop teaching this, or like scenes of like
Speaker 1: outraged like racist parents at these school board meetings being like,
Speaker 1: don't teach them history? What is this? It's destroying us?
Speaker 1: And yeah, the biggest thing, that's just the biggest miss
Speaker 1: of all of this, at least in the reporting, is that,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's a decades old academic discipline, but
Speaker 1: on top of it, it's just taught at the graduate level,
Speaker 1: like when you are in university. This isn't we didn't
Speaker 1: grow up with, like alright, kids, and now open up
Speaker 1: your critical race theory books. Is like first graders. So
Speaker 1: all of the energy is completely misplaced. And this is
Speaker 1: all by design because they just need this catch all
Speaker 1: outraged topic to get people sort of, they just need
Speaker 1: an energy to exploit. And yeah, I think the more
Speaker 1: you you hear, what how people talk about it, You're like,
Speaker 1: do they even know what this is? Or this is
Speaker 1: just the new dog whistle that can play a bunch
Speaker 1: of different tunes, right, didn't like one of them was
Speaker 1: one of the conservative politicians was asked to describe, like
Speaker 1: what critical race theory is and the person whose last
Speaker 1: name is Pringle appropriately enough. It basically teaches that certain
Speaker 1: children are inherently bad people because of the color of
Speaker 1: their skin. Period. H that's a lot to unpack these
Speaker 1: people whose perspective, these people when they were doing the
Speaker 1: training programs and the government. If you don't buy into
Speaker 1: what they taught you, they sent your way to a
Speaker 1: re education camp. Huh, what do you mean? The white
Speaker 1: male executives are sent to a three day re education
Speaker 1: camp where they were told that their white male culture
Speaker 1: wasn't there. Okay, let's just let's there, sir. Are you okay?
Speaker 1: Because this is like just hearing that in the in
Speaker 1: the wake of the uprisings last summer, there were companies
Speaker 1: saying like, we need racial sensitivity training because they're clear
Speaker 1: blind spots from a corporate culture that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1: And then this is now turned into they're what they're
Speaker 1: fucking their heads are bagged and they're thrown into a
Speaker 1: fucking van and then driven like the dark side of town.
Speaker 1: For like how their eyes peeled open to watch like
Speaker 1: a bunch of fucking rap videos. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the funk they think this is. And it goes on
Speaker 1: still like the other like attacks are people saying, quote,
Speaker 1: minority students are going to suffer the most from this.
Speaker 1: When you teach students that the system is against them,
Speaker 1: they have no motivation to learn. They are not going
Speaker 1: to try to work, They're not going to try to
Speaker 1: improve themselves. Seeing that part, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You even I'm going to improve themselves, he says. I
Speaker 1: mean this whole idea that it's like, oh, thank you
Speaker 1: the savior person for saving me from being defeated by
Speaker 1: acknowledging that I'm surviving in a racist construct, Like what
Speaker 1: what exactly is the concern there? And I think this
Speaker 1: has been going it's it's just gaining more and more momentum.
Speaker 1: But I think this is the part where you really
Speaker 1: see what it's all about, because underneath it, it's just
Speaker 1: like the other threats are that it will lead kids
Speaker 1: to Marxism, and this is the last thing that this
Speaker 1: guy Pringle said, he said, quote, this is still the
Speaker 1: greatest country that ever ever been in the history of
Speaker 1: the world. Okay uh, and the radical left is trying
Speaker 1: to destroy that and tear us apart and divide this
Speaker 1: country based on racing class, which is exactly what they
Speaker 1: do in communist countries. Hum, I don't so you don't.
Speaker 1: So you don't know what communism is either, Okay, cool? Goddamn.
Speaker 1: They love comparing things to like concentration camps and like
Speaker 1: just implying, did you see that? What's her face? Marjorie whatever? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, like as one of them
Speaker 1: is apologizing for comparing masks to Yeah, she's like I
Speaker 1: had like, was she not forty years to go to
Speaker 1: a Holocaust museum? Like? Yeah, have you not taught that?
Speaker 1: Was she not taught that? And this is why we
Speaker 1: need better education because she didn't know what the Holocaust was.
Speaker 1: And it's like, y'all, I was just in that museum.
Speaker 1: She literally said, hey, it happened, Like are you what where?
Speaker 1: They just don't know. I saw this. I saw this
Speaker 1: TikTok the other day for this like Republican lady was
Speaker 1: complaining about the Quaker oats guy on the canister and
Speaker 1: is like, if we're gonna change anti mimah, we should
Speaker 1: get rid of this slave owner around the this can
Speaker 1: of votes. And like someone was like, that's not a
Speaker 1: slave owner, that's a Quaker, that's a completely different that's
Speaker 1: not a slave owner. You just no one knows what
Speaker 1: they're talking about, right, Yeah, I mean, and I think
Speaker 1: even with that Marjorie Taylor Green comment, it's like it
Speaker 1: just shows you how much of a threat these kinds
Speaker 1: of people are when this is their worldview. And then
Speaker 1: they enter the halls of Congress too, you know, drum
Speaker 1: up legislation that is trying to reinforce their worldview where
Speaker 1: maybe the Holocaust I don't know, I don't know there
Speaker 1: were you there, Yeah exactly. That's like her. So I
Speaker 1: went to like a shitty public school in Michigan, and
Speaker 1: I know about the Holocaust. Like at the very least,
Speaker 1: we didn't have parents at home that we're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. The teaching because in eighth grade we
Speaker 1: took a trip to d C. I may have told
Speaker 1: this story before before we're going into the Holocaust Museum,
Speaker 1: our teachers, before we got off the bus, said Hey,
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know we got a
Speaker 1: letter from a parent that said that the Holocaust never
Speaker 1: happened and that they didn't want they didn't want your
Speaker 1: classmate in to go to this museum. I just want
Speaker 1: to let all of you know. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say who it is, but I just want to let
Speaker 1: you know that there are people who are going to
Speaker 1: deny what all of the things you are about to
Speaker 1: see in this museum. And it was really a pointed.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like everyone's like, yo, what
Speaker 1: the funk? And I'm growing in l A. Were like
Speaker 1: we saw a Shimmler's List, it was best picture. But
Speaker 1: like then we go in and that was sort of wow.
Speaker 1: That was my first time even hearing that. People were like,
Speaker 1: what do you but that ship happened? Like what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Holocaust deniers? Until maybe like ten years ago,
Speaker 1: I had no idea it was a thing, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, very cool, cool time. Marjorie Taylor Green, what
Speaker 1: let's talk about the police real quick? Uh they're back.
Speaker 1: And then it was easier, so uh one just kind
Speaker 1: of smaller scale thing. But the manager from the shake
Speaker 1: check that's supposedly poisoned the milkshakes. A poison is suing
Speaker 1: the NYPD because yeah, they arrested him, interrogated him for hours,
Speaker 1: like continued, Yeah, and this was this was after they knew,
Speaker 1: like after they had happened. Yeah, they went to the
Speaker 1: emergency were on the emergency people were like, you did
Speaker 1: not drink bleach, Like that's just not a not a
Speaker 1: thing that happened to you. So they came to him,
Speaker 1: were like this tastes a little off, and he was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so sorry, and gave them vouchers. Uh,
Speaker 1: they come back two hours later and arrest him after
Speaker 1: going to the emergency room, and then their union immediately
Speaker 1: like reports that they were poisoned on and it like
Speaker 1: goes viral because again, the right just needs something to
Speaker 1: complain about. But onto kind of the bigger stuff is
Speaker 1: just the general reaction backlash by the police to just
Speaker 1: the fact that they were criticized, openly criticized. There are
Speaker 1: now like more and more documented examples of police refusing
Speaker 1: to answer calls for help and being like, well, you
Speaker 1: should have not defunded us, then come on. And there's
Speaker 1: this argument that conservatives have been making since Ferguson. It's
Speaker 1: called the Ferguson effect, and it claims that because people
Speaker 1: protested the police, there was a spike in the murder
Speaker 1: rate and that's because like the police were scared or something.
Speaker 1: And the facts sorry that the police when their protests
Speaker 1: just disassociate just like check out and will not protect
Speaker 1: those people. Like I I've talked about how I've like
Speaker 1: anecdotal cases where somebody was robbed and called the police
Speaker 1: and they were like came the next day and we're
Speaker 1: like sorry, but you guys shouldn't have like talked to
Speaker 1: your council person and tell them they shouldn't have defunded us,
Speaker 1: and like the funding change is tiny, it's like almost
Speaker 1: non existent. It's not real. It's just the police being
Speaker 1: fucking petulant. And yeah, I don't know, and I feel
Speaker 1: like this story is being covered in the margins. But
Speaker 1: it's not like there's evidence that MYPD response time to
Speaker 1: like crimes in progress has dropped since the protests, even
Speaker 1: though ambulance response time has like gotten quicker because they're
Speaker 1: fewer cars on the because of the pandemic. And it's
Speaker 1: not a like the police are like yeah, because people
Speaker 1: were retiring because they their feelings were hurt. It's just like, well,
Speaker 1: fucking hire new people, like what these aren't good if
Speaker 1: you if you're feel that's that means you aren't the
Speaker 1: kind of person who should be protecting or serving fucking
Speaker 1: anybody rather than your own like racist fantasies that you've
Speaker 1: you entered the force with. And I think it's also
Speaker 1: just when you see things like that too, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: what is what is? What do the police really? Do?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Because do they prevent crime?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure? Is that is that how we prevent
Speaker 1: crime by having the police? I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think it's because people are destitute and resort to extra
Speaker 1: legal things to survive, or because the nature of trying
Speaker 1: to survive puts people in a different mindset. Your behavior
Speaker 1: is completely different. It's this example. Always say, it's like
Speaker 1: the same reason why you don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: cops in Beverly Hills, the same reason you don't see
Speaker 1: a lot of cops in Burbank unless you're brown and
Speaker 1: you're driving down Magnolian your system is too loud. But
Speaker 1: like that whole idea is those areas are well supported.
Speaker 1: So because of that there's not the same sort of
Speaker 1: forces acting on people to commit crimes. And I think
Speaker 1: that to to think like, oh man, you just gotta
Speaker 1: have more boots and they're just brutalizing people. That's that's
Speaker 1: it's all. It's all fucking it's all. It's just a myth.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I wonder why there is less sort of
Speaker 1: energy to cover this, because it felt like if this
Speaker 1: came out sort of last summer, this would have been
Speaker 1: reported more. But I think it also shows how the
Speaker 1: media how's up a role to play in upholding these
Speaker 1: systems of oppression by saying like, well, we can make
Speaker 1: it hot to a point and then we'll ease off,
Speaker 1: and then we won't really give substantive reporting on this. Right,
Speaker 1: there's this writer Thomas apt A BT who just released
Speaker 1: a book called Bleeding Out that's sort of a manifesto
Speaker 1: for targeting violence. And the book points out that basically
Speaker 1: all the methods that the police used to police neighborhoods
Speaker 1: where a lot of murders happen our counter productive. And
Speaker 1: we're seeing like Biden's infrastructure bill, which is going to
Speaker 1: get watered down, but like, at least it started out
Speaker 1: with a lot of this guy's ideas like really well
Speaker 1: funded in it. And I know that at a local
Speaker 1: level a bunch of different city councils past funding for
Speaker 1: non police like emergency response, which is something we've talked
Speaker 1: about on the show as like yeah, there's a mental
Speaker 1: health issue or basically any issue that doesn't involve somebody
Speaker 1: who is physically harming somebody, like send some there should
Speaker 1: be an option to call somebody who's not the police, basically, um,
Speaker 1: And that is we're we're starting to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more funding. So there is small victories, but it
Speaker 1: just isn't really breaking through to the mainstream just how
Speaker 1: toxic the police response to those protests have been. But
Speaker 1: we'll have a lot of articles about this in the footnotes.
Speaker 1: It should be like most disqualifying, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like if that's your behavior to say, like it's like, well, look, honey,
Speaker 1: I didn't I couldn't clean the gutters because you asked
Speaker 1: me to to get the garage tidy. If I have look,
Speaker 1: if you asked me to do that, I could have
Speaker 1: done the other thing. So like it's that same shitty
Speaker 1: logic of well you inconvenience to me, So now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just be I'm gonna have this resentment and completely
Speaker 1: disengage from my work. And it's just like that in
Speaker 1: and of itself should be such a horrifying thing for
Speaker 1: people to learn that these people are like even exercising
Speaker 1: that kind of agency, to be like, nah, while we're
Speaker 1: still paying them too. Yeah, yeah, with ceremony with our
Speaker 1: real American dollars. I mean, the fact that there is
Speaker 1: one type of person is allowed to just go up
Speaker 1: and shoot someone based on their judgment and not face
Speaker 1: any legal repercussions. You would think that that would be
Speaker 1: the most you know, scrutinized group of people in the world, right,
Speaker 1: Like we would, we would be all over those people.
Speaker 1: And when we even try to like give them a
Speaker 1: modicum of like responsibility for the actions of their worst
Speaker 1: the people who are just wantingly killing people, they react
Speaker 1: like this. It's just such a broken system. Like it
Speaker 1: really makes you realize why people are asking for the
Speaker 1: abolition of of police. It's because they helped protect the
Speaker 1: property from the billionaires that don't actually pay their salaries,
Speaker 1: which is the whole irony of it too. Right, All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about a cool thing I read, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And every once in a while I read an article
Speaker 1: in The New Yorker and it makes me really proud,
Speaker 1: and so I have to like tell everybody about it
Speaker 1: that read something in the New York Yeah. Sometimes I'll
Speaker 1: just do a whole segment on a cartoon that I've
Speaker 1: read and like why the joke was funny. Um, sometimes
Speaker 1: I don't even get it. I'm informed later by the
Speaker 1: listeners like, no, that actually wasn't the joke, but um, anyways,
Speaker 1: I just had my mind blown by this article about
Speaker 1: kind of the deepest parts of the ocean, which we've
Speaker 1: actually been talking about on the show in the context
Speaker 1: of like unidentified aerial phenomenon and submerged phenomenon, because you know,
Speaker 1: these like white tic tics that people keep seeing tent
Speaker 1: to be around bodies of water and around the ocean,
Speaker 1: and so some people speculate that that's where they're coming from,
Speaker 1: is like the sea floor. But this just kind of
Speaker 1: blew my mind just in general, with without any context
Speaker 1: of of aliens that so the they're only only the
Speaker 1: top layers of the oceans are illuminated. There's the sunlight zone,
Speaker 1: which extends about seven feet the twilight zone, which goes
Speaker 1: down another feet and then everything below that there's just
Speaker 1: no there's no light. And down there, like every the
Speaker 1: light is created by the animals themselves. There's like bioluminescence.
Speaker 1: And apparently bioluminescence has developed in like fifty different ways.
Speaker 1: It's not like everybody figured out the same trick evolutionarily.
Speaker 1: It they all developed like in different ways using different methods.
Speaker 1: And it's super cool. So this explorer like goes down there.
Speaker 1: It's apparently really really hard to get to that depth
Speaker 1: because you know, you have to lower a camera, you
Speaker 1: would be like crushed as a for the most part.
Speaker 1: And when they get down there, explorers are always like
Speaker 1: it's like a firework show down there. It's not. It's
Speaker 1: not like every once in a while there's there's a
Speaker 1: glowing animal. It's like they're just everywhere because some avatar
Speaker 1: type ship. Yeah, it's really it's like some avatary ship
Speaker 1: and it's and there's so many animals down there that
Speaker 1: are are bioluminescent that this scientists says that she estimates
Speaker 1: that it's most of the creatures on the plant, like
Speaker 1: most of the organisms on the planet Earth are down
Speaker 1: in that zone, and we'd like, yeah, because we don't
Speaker 1: know what's down there. Yea, we just don't know. There's
Speaker 1: aliens down there. People are like there's aliens in the sky.
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, have you been in the ocean. There's
Speaker 1: aliens down there. I don't even know what's down there.
Speaker 1: Look outside the planet? Is this like? Because I always
Speaker 1: see like whenever I've seen like those Planet Earth type things,
Speaker 1: those are always the most fascinating sections for me because
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I've seen birds and other stuff, but
Speaker 1: like all of this, I don't know technology or these
Speaker 1: evolutionary traits that they've developed. It really is. It shows
Speaker 1: you like we they're so little we really know. And
Speaker 1: but when you say that most of the organisms, you
Speaker 1: mean like numerically in terms of the number of like
Speaker 1: different species like that, I think it's the number of animals.
Speaker 1: The number of animals, like there's so many down there,
Speaker 1: And yeah, so that's like the thing that Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: seen the you know, the David Edinborough nature documentaries, and
Speaker 1: I always got the impression like, yeah, there's like a
Speaker 1: handful of these like really cool like bioluminescent creatures down there.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it's supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a desert down there, and this scientist is like, no,
Speaker 1: it's incredibly like active and full of life and full
Speaker 1: of like glowing just whild It's like a it's like
Speaker 1: a light show down there. Yeah, you know who um
Speaker 1: is just recently hosted a nature show and it's like
Speaker 1: the most distracting thing of all time ross from Friends,
Speaker 1: David Schwimmer, and it's like I cannot get through it
Speaker 1: with his voice being the one it's like the beautiful gazelle.
Speaker 1: Like it's so bad. Wait what it's all like Discovery
Speaker 1: plus or something. Yeah, that's a Joe bad. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a joke and it's so serious and I
Speaker 1: was like, who is this for? I guess friends fans.
Speaker 1: It's so bad. Wow, Like yeah, I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: great scientific commentary. When I think David Swimmer, I'm greatly
Speaker 1: because he was a paleontologist on the show, so they're
Speaker 1: like he should do I don't know, to have some
Speaker 1: fucked up data that suggests like this like ven diagram
Speaker 1: overlap of friends fans and people who like the like
Speaker 1: like nature ship too, maybe aith type combo or like, no,
Speaker 1: it sounds stupid, but they're just doing numbers. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean that makes total sense. So like Friends is one
Speaker 1: of the most popular streaming shows of all time, and
Speaker 1: people like Nature Diet, Like I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people watch nature documentaries on there. So George stands and
Speaker 1: narrated a nature documentary. Yes, that's literally I made a
Speaker 1: reference to that yesterday and yesterday's episode. Well, my god,
Speaker 1: there you go a lot of a lot of time
Speaker 1: felt references. Alright, let's let's talk about the box office.
Speaker 1: I was very disappointed to see that the movie and
Speaker 1: the Heights bombed, Like I think people were saying, like,
Speaker 1: at least they were expecting at least twenty million at
Speaker 1: the box office, and it made eleven. And also nobody
Speaker 1: watched it on HBO Max. It had fewer people watch
Speaker 1: it than Cruella and Cruella costs like thirty dollars, and
Speaker 1: in the Heights was free, more people paid to see.
Speaker 1: Karl was good. I'm sorry, Karl was good. It's really bad.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the hot tap. It was bad.
Speaker 1: It was it was ridiculous, but I was entertained the
Speaker 1: whole time I heard it tells the truth about those
Speaker 1: fucking Dalmatians, right, They're evil and will kill your mother.
Speaker 1: They should have been dead. Yeah, Ellie was furious. Elie
Speaker 1: said it as a joke where I was like, what
Speaker 1: is the origin going to story going to be that
Speaker 1: Dalmatians killed her family? And then that was the origin story?
Speaker 1: Sorry spoiler alert in the first scene, right, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a person that's like her Bruce Wayne moment. My god,
Speaker 1: these hundred and one Dalmatians family. I haven't watched it,
Speaker 1: which I should have like wanted to watch it. It
Speaker 1: was like a in a dark period of my life
Speaker 1: for real Hamilton's dork. I saw The Heights on Broadway
Speaker 1: loved it. Was really like rooting for this movie, and
Speaker 1: I just think they fucked up the marketing like they
Speaker 1: it just seemed like the marketing, all the ads I
Speaker 1: saw for it just it seemed like it was just
Speaker 1: another like West Side Story type thing, like or you know,
Speaker 1: a musical set in modern New York, and it was
Speaker 1: like they were The thing that's cool about it is
Speaker 1: the way that like the rapping like carries the story
Speaker 1: forward and it has like, you know, a momentum of
Speaker 1: its own, and they just like don't have that in
Speaker 1: almost any of the trailers or commercials for it. It
Speaker 1: reminded me of like when they released Frozen and like
Speaker 1: just made it made the first trailer about Olaf the
Speaker 1: Snowman because they were like scared that people would see
Speaker 1: that it had two sisters at the center instead of
Speaker 1: like a guy and a girl and would like wouldn't
Speaker 1: watch it. They were like hiding the thing that was
Speaker 1: good about it because it was unorthodox. Basically, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that all the sort of controversy around like
Speaker 1: the colorism and things like that that's consumed like a
Speaker 1: lot of the coverage recently more than me even hearing
Speaker 1: what people thought of the film apologizes you know, for
Speaker 1: the lack of representation of like Afro Latin XT people
Speaker 1: that could have been in the film and things like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't And the trailers almost seemed like
Speaker 1: it was like it didn't register to me that it's
Speaker 1: a musical. I know it's a musical, but when I
Speaker 1: watched this stuff didn't I'm like I didn't know either,
Speaker 1: but like a very high energy action film with dancing
Speaker 1: or something, that's what I thought, and it was like
Speaker 1: a yes, there's also like something that felt sort of
Speaker 1: Obama administration era about like how I don't know. It
Speaker 1: was just like really on the nose, like he's wearing
Speaker 1: a shirt that says Nueva York and the trailer like
Speaker 1: it's like, yes, we're in New York and we are
Speaker 1: part of the community. Yes, the way by York. But yeah, anyways,
Speaker 1: the marketing just felt like it was kind of selling
Speaker 1: it short according to people who have seen it, which yeah,
Speaker 1: is the problem. Bummed to see it didn't do better,
Speaker 1: and then When's West Side Story come out, like it's
Speaker 1: like what the fuck? Who planned out their release schedule here? Like, hey,
Speaker 1: you're going toe to toe with Spielberg's West Side Story. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the pandemic planned it out, like maybe, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I do think they were supposed to come out in
Speaker 1: the same year during the pandemic, because I remember during
Speaker 1: the oscars when we began, that was when I begin
Speaker 1: to see even more West Side Story and in the
Speaker 1: Heights like footage. I was like, this is confusing to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm mixing up the two in my head
Speaker 1: right out, and I don't. I'm certainly that doesn't help.
Speaker 1: But yeah, again, something that if you showed the rapping,
Speaker 1: would have like made it a very like the wrapping
Speaker 1: and west Side story is supposed to be not very good.
Speaker 1: I've been told it was all written by Maclamore, right,
Speaker 1: Alan Menkin and Maclamore. Also just checking back on something
Speaker 1: we've speculated about, the idea that like streaming shows aren't
Speaker 1: really as popular as we treat them. I guess a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of the time, like that low key
Speaker 1: show that everyone was talking about a week ago. This
Speaker 1: guy Scott Mendelssohn from Forbes, who I think is one
Speaker 1: of the smartest people writing about kind of the entertainment industry,
Speaker 1: was pointing out that like the equivalent of eight million
Speaker 1: dollars worth of ticket sales saw that show like the
Speaker 1: opening week, like for a Marvel thing, it would have
Speaker 1: been a complete like disaster. But people treat it like, oh,
Speaker 1: Loki is like a big show, and it's like no
Speaker 1: nobody nobody really watches that ship, but we treat it
Speaker 1: like it's a it's we treat it like it's another
Speaker 1: Marvel movie or something. So anyway, so you'd luck good
Speaker 1: luck to them, good luck to those, good luck to Disney,
Speaker 1: good luck they make it. They make it. Hope they
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're they're so uh they're they're known
Speaker 1: for being very economic. I think they'll survive. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I I do have high hopes for that company. I
Speaker 1: think they're going they're going places. The only reason that
Speaker 1: I want to watch that is for what's his name?
Speaker 1: Ohm Wilson? I miss you know, Wilson and Wilson. What's in?
Speaker 1: What's he in? Yeah? What things? Oh? Yes? Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: And uh. There was like a little piece of viral
Speaker 1: marketing where Tom Hittelson did a oh and Wilson impression
Speaker 1: to like add a press junk hit and people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so here for this like Owen Wilson impression, and
Speaker 1: it was like so bad. It was just him doing
Speaker 1: a fucking American accent. I'm like, what's happening? Alright, Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the movie people are actually watching was which
Speaker 1: is a quiet place to which, Yeah, it kind of
Speaker 1: became the first pandemic era movie to make more than
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars at the U. S. Box office, which, again,
Speaker 1: like you talk about people that we root for here,
Speaker 1: John Krasinski's designer sock vendor business, that's we were always
Speaker 1: concerned that that's making enough money, so happy to see
Speaker 1: him have good things happen for him. So there's a
Speaker 1: minor controversy in the UK about the lack of subtitled
Speaker 1: screenings offered to the public on this movie, which is
Speaker 1: like the protagonist of this movie is a deaf character
Speaker 1: played by a deaf actress, um and like a huge
Speaker 1: breakthrough and like creating a role model for hearing impaired viewers,
Speaker 1: and they just like aren't showing it in a format
Speaker 1: that would be like possible for deaf people to watch.
Speaker 1: And this kind of story, like jmr Writer kind of
Speaker 1: did a deep dive into just what the whole process,
Speaker 1: like what it means when they say, okay, closed captioning
Speaker 1: devices are available, Like that's just a little screen that
Speaker 1: they give you the plugs into your cup holders some somehow,
Speaker 1: and it just like says the words on it, but
Speaker 1: you have to like look back and forth between the
Speaker 1: screen and like this tiny little screen in front of you,
Speaker 1: which sucks. Like that's people are like this is awful,
Speaker 1: like and it's also like all of it is like
Speaker 1: based off the dumbest presumptions on how people watch movies
Speaker 1: or would repel someone from going to a movie or
Speaker 1: attract someone to going to a movie. Like the idea
Speaker 1: is like, well, we can't, we can't have more open
Speaker 1: caption films. People don't go, right, That's why. So in
Speaker 1: the UK they do open caption which is like putting
Speaker 1: the captions on and just on the screen, and like
Speaker 1: there's a certain number of movies that have them, which
Speaker 1: seems to be the better option for everybody. But there's
Speaker 1: a controversy because they're just not doing enough of them
Speaker 1: in the UK right now. But so there's been a
Speaker 1: push to do open captioning in the US, and like
Speaker 1: theater owners have basically like just sandbagged any efforts to
Speaker 1: do this. Like they they'll be like, Okay, yeah, we wanna.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a study where we like do open
Speaker 1: captioning and see if it like changes the box office.
Speaker 1: And then they'll like put open captioning on like Cats,
Speaker 1: like on a Thursday morning, and then like put not
Speaker 1: open been captioning on Avengers End Game on a Friday
Speaker 1: and night and be like, well, I think that speaks
Speaker 1: for itself. Guys. We can't Yeah, we can't do We're
Speaker 1: gonna be drowned. We're gonna drown, and just the loss
Speaker 1: of profit from doing this. Like I watch I my
Speaker 1: wife and I keep the close captioning on all streaming
Speaker 1: content that we watched. I always have my TV like
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing. There's a lot of like just
Speaker 1: analysis that shows people who like watch even TV shows
Speaker 1: or Netflix with it on aren't hard of hearing or
Speaker 1: hearing impaired. Like it's because a lot I remember, like
Speaker 1: I first started doing it when Deadwood came out because
Speaker 1: like the dialogue is so dense and like you know,
Speaker 1: colloquial and of the time that I was like I
Speaker 1: need to see the words they're saying it. And it's
Speaker 1: been a thing that carries on, like certain things. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm like sometimes they'll distract me from actually like looking
Speaker 1: at like the cinematography and whatever. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: I don't mind it. And that's what's like so bizarre
Speaker 1: because there's not it doesn't seem like there's a sentiment
Speaker 1: from people who would it require open caption to be
Speaker 1: like I would never Yeah, I don't thin people are
Speaker 1: vehemently against it. I don't think there's going to be
Speaker 1: like protests outside a MC like right, you know, with
Speaker 1: misspelled signs because you actually think about it actually, And
Speaker 1: there's even like this thing with like during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like a lot of child development people were saying like,
Speaker 1: if your kids are gonna watch TV, like put the
Speaker 1: captions on because it's reading when they're very passively begin reading.
Speaker 1: Like it's not a bad thing to do, so to
Speaker 1: send my kids to school for the rest. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean apparently Game of Thrones was a big people have
Speaker 1: looked at. There's a huge uptaking people who just leave
Speaker 1: the subtitles on for Game of Thrones because it was
Speaker 1: like hard Dick kind of figure out, Okay, that person
Speaker 1: is actually different from that guy with a white beard,
Speaker 1: and should have had that for Mara beast Town, right,
Speaker 1: they actually had to. This would also be really helpful
Speaker 1: for Christopher Nolan movies. Oh my god, I feel like
Speaker 1: he intentionally fucks up the sound he does. I couldn't
Speaker 1: cared tant right. So there's a there was a theater
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee that just made it exclusively open caption screenings
Speaker 1: because it was so hard to understand. Yeah, it's impossible,
Speaker 1: it's really it's so you have you seen it. It's
Speaker 1: so impossible. The music is so loud, like the action
Speaker 1: is so mixed it's terrible. But I literally thought something
Speaker 1: was wrong with my TV, right all right, this has
Speaker 1: been since being in Dark Knighted Rises, like they like
Speaker 1: kept having to like funk with the mix because it
Speaker 1: was just completely often nobody could understand what he was saying.
Speaker 1: Dun Kirk was fucking violent, like the sound and that
Speaker 1: was like aggressive and like damaging. And then now apparently
Speaker 1: Tenant is you just can't hear it, like I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening at all. To be fair,
Speaker 1: nobody knows what's going on in that movie, so right,
Speaker 1: but you would think that you would make sure people
Speaker 1: could understand the words that people were saying. But that's
Speaker 1: sort of the experience, that disorienting situation where you know,
Speaker 1: Chris Well, I walked out because I didn't know what
Speaker 1: was happening. I was just gonna say, we should watch Tenant,
Speaker 1: but we are watching, uh for this week. I guess
Speaker 1: it'll be tomorrow's episode or Monday's episode. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: a Netflix show recommended by super producer on a Hosnier
Speaker 1: called We Are the Champions. So if anybody wants to
Speaker 1: watch that with us and talk about it. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it on in a Streaming Corner on Monday's episode.
Speaker 1: Give you a couple of days with that. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: this has been so fun having you on the show.
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Speaker 1: And is there a tweet you guys have been enjoying
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Speaker 1: My question is how I've been thinking about that tweet
Speaker 1: for a week and it just is so funny to me.
Speaker 1: That is so is so good minus from Noah Garfinkel
Speaker 1: and it's uh Yoda is short for your dad, so
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Speaker 1: theory is an attack on our country's core values, and
Speaker 1: she started quote tweeted that with the picture of Regina
Speaker 1: from Me and Girls. He says, so you agree you
Speaker 1: think our country's core value is racism, which is just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what's happening. When these people saying
Speaker 1: this out loud, You're like, so you get that, You're
Speaker 1: so really the the whole argument is we want to
Speaker 1: hide the racist history. You can find me on Twitter
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Speaker 1: so Ronald McDonald could suck his I'm dick uh and
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Speaker 1: who wrote this about me? And it's a reductress headline?
Speaker 1: It's a yikes. This woman made a self deprecating joke.
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Speaker 1: off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as a song we think you should go
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Speaker 1: Like by this artist in May and it's got like this.
Speaker 1: It starts off feeling like something you know, your own
Speaker 1: aunts and uncles. You're listening to a family you know,
Speaker 1: outing or some ship starts smooth, but it has like
Speaker 1: a a smooth jazz, trap, the soul vibe to it,
Speaker 1: and I just love like this sort of convergence of
Speaker 1: many different styles, but it's very easy to listen to.
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